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Crown Point Road: Opening Northern New England & Lake Champlain

July 17, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Map of 1759 Crown Point Road courtesy Crown Point Road AssociationAfter the fall of the forts at Ticonderoga and Crown Point during the French and Indian War in the fall of 1759, General Jeffrey Amherst ordered the building of the Crown Point Road.

The road was to run across what is now Vermont between Crown Point and The Fort at No. 4 on the Connecticut River in what is now Charlestown, New Hampshire. [Read more…] about Crown Point Road: Opening Northern New England & Lake Champlain

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events, History Tagged With: American Revolution, Connecticut River, Crown Point, Crown Point Road, Crown Point SHS, Fort Ticonderoga, French And Indian War, Lake Champlain, Military History, Mount Independence, New Hampshire, New Hampshire Grants, Ticonderoga Historical Society, Transportation History, Vermont

July 7, 1777: The Battle of Hubbardton in Vermont

July 7, 2023 by Editorial Staff 4 Comments

Diarama of the Battle of Hubbardton, Vermont 1777July 7th marks the anniversary of the 1777 Battle of Hubbardton, in Vermont. The battle was one of the only engagements in what’s now the state of Vermont during the American Revolutionary War, although the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in 1775 and the Battle of Valcour Island in 1776 did spill over into Vermont as well.

Like the Battle of Bennington, it holds a particularly outsized role in the conflict itself owing to it having taken place in the lead-up to the Battles of Saratoga. [Read more…] about July 7, 1777: The Battle of Hubbardton in Vermont

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: American Revolution, Arthur St. Clair, Battle of Saratoga, Green Mountain Boys, Hubbardton Battlefield, John Burgoyne, Military History, Nathan Hale, New Hampshire Grants, Seth Warner, Vermont, Vermont Historical Society

The Green Mountain Boys & The Evolution of Vermont’s State Flag

March 15, 2023 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

Green Mountain Boys flagIf you walk into the Vermont Historical Society’s museum in Montpelier, you’ll a flag hanging from the wall behind the admission desk: the blue and green Green Mountain Boys flag.

It’s a flag that’s been wrapped up with a hefty dose of legend and mythology. [Read more…] about The Green Mountain Boys & The Evolution of Vermont’s State Flag

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: American Revolution, Battle of Bennington, Bennington Museum, Ethan Allen, flags, Folklore, Fort Ticonderoga, Green Mountain Boys, Hoosick, John Stark, Material Culture, Military History, New Hampshire Grants, Rensselaer County, Seth Warner, Vermont, Vermont Historical Society, Walloomsac River

The Anniversary of the State of Vermont

March 14, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

seal of VermontOn March 4th, the State of Vermont celebrated its 232nd birthday. March 4th, 1791 is the formal start of what we now know of as Vermont: the 14th state in the union, with a continuity that has withstood the last two centuries. But the idea of Vermont had its own torturous birth in 1777, the result of land grants from the colonies of New Hampshire and New York, and those settlers making those lands their own.  [Read more…] about The Anniversary of the State of Vermont

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: American Revolution, Green Mountain Boys, Lake Champlain, New France, New Hampshire Grants, Vermont, Washington County

Albany Posse! The Capture of Remember Baker, Captain of the Green Mountain Boys

March 17, 2022 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

The Green Mountain Boys in Council by Benson LossingBetween 1749 and 1764 colonial governor of the Province of New Hampshire Benning Wenworth made about 135 land grants (now known as the New Hampshire Grants), including 131 towns, on land claimed by New Hampshire west of the Connecticut River.  This area was also claimed by the colonial Province of New York.

From the 1760s until 1779 the Green Mountain Boys, led by Ethan Allen and his brother Ira, controlled the area. Based at a tavern in Bennington, they evaded arrest warrants from New York State and harassed settlers from New York, surveyors, and other officials, often with severe beatings and destruction of their belongings. [Read more…] about Albany Posse! The Capture of Remember Baker, Captain of the Green Mountain Boys

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Events, History Tagged With: Albany, American Revolution, Crime and Justice, Green Mountain Boys, New Hampshire, New Hampshire Grants, Vermont

Green Mountain Boys in the American Revolution

July 9, 2019 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

mount independenceSince 2016 the Green Mountain Boys Project have been researching the celebrated military unit, which lived and served along what was then the New York and New Hampshire border (in modern day Vermont) from the 1760s until 1779.

The Green Mountain Boys, led by Ethan Allen and his brother Ira, controlled the area of disputed land grants. Based at a tavern in Bennington, they evaded arrest warrants from New York State and harassed settlers from New York, surveyors, and other officials, often with severe beatings and destruction of their belongings. [Read more…] about Green Mountain Boys in the American Revolution

Filed Under: History Tagged With: American Revolution, AmRev, Green Mountain Boys, Mount Independence, New Hampshire, New Hampshire Grants, Vermont

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